By Bob Allen The Progressive National Baptist Convention has set out to raise $100,000 to establish its first national center to aid churches in helping individuals re-enter and reintegrate into communities after being released from prison. The PNBC hopes to open…
Publisher announces leadership change
By Bob Allen Smyth & Helwys Publishing, a resource provider for many churches affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, has introduced Keith Gammons as its new publisher and executive vice president. Gammons, an 11-year veteran of the privately owned company…
Black pastor says gay marriage wedge issue
By Bob Allen African-American Baptist leaders are working together to counter attempts by outsiders to use gay marriage as a wedge issue to divide black voters, a Baptist minister and NAACP leader said in a radio interview Aug. 11. Amos…
Black pastor says gay marriage wedge issue
By Bob Allen African-American Baptist leaders are working together to counter attempts by outsiders to use gay marriage as a wedge issue to divide black voters, a Baptist minister and NAACP leader said in a radio interview Aug. 11. Amos…
Black pastor: gay marriage wedge issue
By Bob Allen African-American Baptist leaders are working together to counter attempts by outsiders to use gay marriage as a wedge issue to divide black voters, a Baptist minister and NAACP leader said in a radio interview Aug. 11. Amos…
CBF interim says attrition rate unexpected
By Bob Allen The interim head of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship says senior staff attrition has been higher than expected since the recent retirement of CBF Executive Coordinator Daniel Vestal, but it is no cause for alarm. Patrick Anderson, interim…
Baptist ghost story called urban legend
By Bob Allen A real-life ghost buster has labeled folklore that a Baptist university sits above haunted catacombs formerly attached to an insane asylum an urban legend. Numerous paranormal websites list California Baptist University in Riverside, Calif., as one of…
Faith leader blasts La. voucher plan
By Bob Allen In an open letter Aug. 7, a Baptist pastor who heads a national interfaith organization criticized Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s school voucher plan as an attack on public education and religious liberty. Welton Gaddy, president of the…
Faith leader blasts La. voucher plan
By Bob Allen A Baptist pastor who heads a national interfaith organization criticized Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s school voucher plan as an attack on public education and religious liberty in an open letter Aug. 7. Welton Gaddy, president of the…